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Leverage

The use of borrowed capital (debt) to increase the potential return of an investment.

Leverage News

People moves
Kaizen adds Perrotte and Husler as non-executive directors

Both Kathy Perrotte and Mark Husler bring decades of experience in financial services to the board of directors

Regulation
SASLA: Reg IM brings questions to South Africa’s SFT market

Industry participants discuss the ever-changing collateral landscape and the upcoming regulation on initial margin at the South African Securities Lending and Collateral Management conference

Repo
GFF: Central clearing in Europe still requires a lot of work

A repo panel at this week’s Global Funding and Financing Summit brought together market representatives to discuss quantitative tightening and mandatory clearing in Europe

Technology
Luxembourg Parliament adopts Blockchain Law 4

The move looks to expand the country’s legal framework to support the development of digital securities and tokenisation

People moves
BNP Paribas selects Geggus to head Triparty Collateral Services

Andrew Geggus will take on the role in addition to his current position as global head of Agency Securities Lending

Technology
BNY introduces CollateralOne for buy side offering

By connecting its LendingLite service with the CollateralOne for buy side platform, BNY aims to help clients generate incremental revenue from lending

Industry
Regnology acquires VERMEG’s regulatory reporting business

The AGILE solution, currently supporting more than 150 international banks, will be integrated into the Regnology platform

Industry
GLEIF approves BOCOM Fintech as validation agent

BOCOM Fintech’s new status represents a significant milestone for LEI adoption in China and the Asia Pacific region, according to GLEIF